* June 21 – Amasa Leland Stanford, Governor of California ( b. 1824 )

* William E. Smith ( 1824 – 1883 ), Governor of Wisconsin ( 1878 – 1882 )

* Henry Johnson, Governor of Louisiana from 1824 to 1824, also District Judge for St. Mary Parish 1811

* Governor Henry S. Thibodaux ( 1824 ) owned a plantation nearby and is buried in Halfway Cemetery in nearby Gray.

* Gabriel Holmes-21st Governor of North Carolina 1821 – 1824, ( 1769-Sep. 26, 1829 )

The competition in the area, between Raffles and the aggressive Dutch de jure Governor, Elout, certainly led at least in part to the later Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824.

In 1824, Hume was seen by Governor Brisbane with reference to an expedition to Spencer Gulf.

Count Johan August Sandels ( August 31, 1764 in Stockholm – January 22, 1831 ) was a Swedish soldier and politician, being appointed Governor of Norway ( Riksståthållare in Swedish, Rigsstatholder in Dano-Norwegian ) 1818 and Field Marshal in 1824.

Daughter Margaret ( 1760 – 1824 ) married Maryland Governor John E. Howard in 1787.

The name " Lisbon " was selected by Governor Levi Woodbury when it was incorporated in 1824.

** Governor DeWitt Clinton 1769-1828-son of James, Kingston Academy 1782, Columbia College 1786, NY Bar 1789, Secretary to Governor 1789-1798, NY Assembly 1798, U. S. Senator 1802, resigned, 1803, mayor of New York City 1803, 1808 – 1809, 1811 – 1815 ; NYS Senate 1799 – 1802, 1806 – 1811, Canal Commissioner 1816 – 1822, Governor 1817, 1820, 1824, 1826, Dewitt is best known for the Erie Canal and the NY State Canal System.

In 1824 Governor Sir Thomas Brisbane asked Hovell to join with Hamilton Hume to undertake the exploration of what is now southern New South Wales and Victoria in an attempt to obtain more information about any rivers that might run south in the direction of Spencer Gulf.

Hercules George Robert Robinson, 1st Baron Rosmead, GCMG, PC ( Chinese name: 羅士敏勳爵 or 羅便臣 ) ( 19 December 1824 – 28 October 1897 ), was a British colonial administrator who became the 5th Governor of Hong Kong.

Charles Pinckney was the uncle of Colonel Charles Pinckney ( 1731 – 1784 ) and the great-uncle of Governor Charles Pinckney ( 1757 – 1824 ).

Lord Huntingdon served as Governor of Jamaica from 1822 to 1824.

In 1824, the Michigan Territory graduated to the second grade of territorial status, and the government's power was transferred from the Governor and a handful of judges to the people.

Named to the North Carolina Council of State in 1824, Owen returned to the state senate in 1827 but was elected Governor by the General Assembly in December 1828, narrowly defeating Richard Dobbs Spaight, Jr. in a vote of 96 to 92.

Hutchins Gordon Burton ( 1774 or 1782 – 21 April 1836 ) was the 22nd Governor of the U. S. state of North Carolina from 1824 to 1827.

The North Carolina state legislature elected Burton the Governor of the state in 1824 and re-elected him in 1825 and 1826.

Gabriel Holmes was the 21st Governor of the U. S. state of North Carolina from 1821 to 1824.

James Turner ( December 20, 1766 – January 15, 1824 ) was the 12th Governor of the U. S. state of North Carolina from 1802 to 1805.

A more successful " New Version " by Bishop Mark Hildesley ( 1698 – 1772 ) was in use until 1824 when English liturgy became universal on the island.

A 1824 landmark U. S. Supreme Court ruling overturned a New York State-granted monopoly (" a veritable model of state munificence " facilitated by one of the Founding Fathers, Robert R. Livingston ) for the then-revolutionary technology of steamboats.

This was contested in Gibbons v. Ogden ( 22 U. S. 1 ) ( 1824 ), which decided that the regulation of interstate commerce fell under the authority of the federal government, thus influencing competition in the newly developing steam ferry service in New York Harbor.

This name originates from sičan, written as svičan in the New Carniolan Almanac from 1775 and changed to its final form by Franc Metelko in his New Almanac from 1824.

The early colonial governors held an almost autocratic power due to the distance from and poor communications with Great Britain, until 1824 when the New South Wales Legislative Council, Australia's first legislative body, was appointed to advise the governor.

( The town's name was changed to New Harmony after the Harmonists left in 1824.

* Arndt, Karl J. R. Harmony on the Wabash in Transition to Rapp's Divine Economy on the Ohio and Owen's New Moral World at New Harmony on the Wabash 1824 – 1826.

New Harmony's first Utopians, 1814 – 1824.

The first trials by civilian juries of 12 in the colony of New South Wales were held in 1824, following a decision of the NSW Supreme Court on 14 October 1824.

However, Representative Stephen Van Rensselaer swung New York to Adams and thereby the 1824 Presidency.

* Robert S. Stevens ( 1824 – 1893 ), American politician, U. S. Representative from New York

* June 25 – John Hall, Prime Minister of New Zealand ( b. 1824 )

* 1824 – The name Australia, recommended by Matthew Flinders in 1804, is finally adopted as the official name of the country once known as New Holland.

* November 5, 1824 – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ( the first technological university in the English-speaking world ) is founded in Troy, New York.

In 1824, the " New Kingdom of León " became the State of Nuevo León, and Monterrey was selected as its capital.

Under the 1824 Constitution of Mexico, it became the federally-administered Territory of New Mexico.

In April 1824, a majority of his political enemies, the Bucktails, voted in the New York State Legislature for his removal from the Canal Commission.

Following a number of exploratory expeditions south from the settled areas of New South Wales, the pastoralist Hamilton Hume and former sea-captain William Hovell set off to explore the country to the south in October 1824.

Over the next century, Windham County would lose several towns to Tolland and New London counties: Coventry to Tolland in 1786, Lebanon to New London in 1824, Columbia and Mansfield to Tolland in 1827, and Voluntown to New London in 1881.

Years of litigation did not end until 1824, at which point the State of New York and the federal government owed Tompkins $ 90, 000, a significant sum in those days.